Vancouver Sun

BRUSSELS BOMBER ALSO WORKED AS ISIL JAILER

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The lawyer for two former French hostages says that the man who blew himself up at Brussels Airport on March 22 was once a jailer for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

Marie-Laure Ingouf says that Najim Laachraoui, pictured, was “one of the captors” of French journalist­s Pierre Torres and Nicolas Henin.

Laachraoui is the second European jihadi to be identified as having a past as a warden for ISIL. Ingouf said that Mehdi Nemmouche, who is accused of a 2014 attack on the Brussels Jewish Museum, worked alongside Laachraoui guarding the hostages.

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